It's been a month since I moved from a Windows-based laptop to a MacBook Pro and I'm just now getting around to playing with development toys..err, tools. First order of business was to grab
Ant and
Maven. Knowing that OS X is built around Linux meant it should be pretty easy. Of course, nothing ever is and it turns out there's lots of advice going back several years in the 'Verse. After seeing several references to
MacPorts (formerly DarwinPorts) I checked it out. In a matter of minutes I had the two projects installed, configured and running.
Want to install Tomcat? It's as simple as...
$ port list tomcat*
tomcat-native @1.1.20 java/tomcat-native
tomcat5 @5.5.25 java/tomcat5
tomcat6 @6.0.29 java/tomcat6
sudo port install tomcat6
Voila. There's 7,434 ports available at this time.
